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Data is great, but strategy is better
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Business
Data
Management
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Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.
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Ends
Four
Gang
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A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.
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Approach
Fingers
Precision
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It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.
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Print
In Print
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Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.
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Avoided
Demand
Offering
Blackberry
Generalized
Web
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No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
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Budgets
Isolation
Matter
Paid
Person
Cannot
How
Look
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The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
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Best Work
Creative
Problem
Team
Escapes
Solution
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At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.
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Distribution
Exhibit
Similar
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From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
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Disruptive
Perspective
Choosing
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Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
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Assuming
Cost
Disruption
Resource
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When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
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Jobs
Members
Objectives
Team
Success Work Your
Job
Clearly
Delegate
Describe
Frame
Member
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If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
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Creative People
People
Smart
Team
Work Smart People
Talented
Enable
More Than Anything
Requires
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While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
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Atari
Busy
Police
Program
Talking Heads
Heads
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Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
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Management
Navigate
Resources
Allocate
Define
Frame
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I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.
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Cycles
Opportunity Always Me
Opportunity Look Me
Reflect
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A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
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Disruption
Hindsight
Moments
Begins
Determining
Entirely
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Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.
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Groups
Strategic
Valuable
Contributions
Underestimating
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When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.
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Sentences
Structure
Complex
Time More Something
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Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
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Analysis
Gathering
Capabilities
Derived
Pc
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People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
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Collaboration
Love Always Your
Internal
Manager
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With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
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Availability
Microsoft
Time Me Step
Responsibilities
Windows
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BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.
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Corporate
Mail
Operations
Routine
Blackberry
Integrate
Pc
Required
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I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.
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Management
Practice
Boils
Fail
Reminds
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Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.
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Technology
Disruption
Innovation
Talking
Thinking
Topics
Hardly
Moment
Passes
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When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.
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Assumptions
Customer
Best Business Art
Practices
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After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.
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Microsoft
Range
Wide
Seek
New Opportunities
Wide Range
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The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
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Clouds
Implied
Productivity
Smartphones
Tools
Transforming
Work World More
Tablet
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As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
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Management
Context
Perfectly
Thus
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Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
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Execution
Faster
Productivity
Tools
Continuous
Evolving
Improved
Innovate
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Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.
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Macintosh
New Things
Work New More
Programs
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My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
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Computing
Dove
Entrepreneur
Family Business Father
Bought
Family Business
Hardly
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Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.
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Critical
Disruption
Evolution
Negative
Typical
Aspects
Element
Emerges
New Technologies
Pattern
Subsequently
Technologies
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Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.
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Bad News
Distrust
Obscure
Transparency
Creates
Hide
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It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.
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Generosity
Good Fortune
Microsoft
Professionalism
Work Good I Am
Awesome
Humbled
Count
Received
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The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.
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Defined
Industrial Revolution
Large Scale
Revolution
Time Business Start
Capabilities
Derived
Organizations
Industrial
Marked
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